John is co-author of the award-winning “Optimizing Manager Structure and Budgeting Manager Risk."
John Pirone, CFA, FRM, CAIA, is a senior vice president and a consultant in the Capital Markets Research group. He is responsible for assisting clients with their strategic investment planning, conducting asset allocation studies, developing optimal investment manager structures, and providing custom research on a variety of investment topics. John is a member of Callan’s Alternatives Review Committee and a shareholder of the firm.
Prior to joining Callan in 2015, John was a managing director at BlackRock in the Client Solutions Group, advising major institutional clients throughout the Americas on total portfolio strategy issues.
From 1997 to 2009, John was a client advisory strategist at Barclays Global Investors. Previously, he was a fixed income analyst at Gifford Fong Associates.
John is co-author of “Optimizing Manager Structure and Budgeting Manager Risk” which received the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy award from The Journal of Portfolio Management.
John earned an MSc in finance from the London Business School, a MA in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a BA in biology from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a holder of the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and has earned the right to use Financial Risk Manager and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designations. He is a member of CFA Institute and CFA Society San Francisco.